Courses holiday mixer
About
Celebrate the holiday season with our adult courses community at the Gallery.
Raise a glass of champagne (or non-alcoholic bubbles) and join us for a festive afternoon at our very first Member Mixer.
This special gathering offers the chance to meet regular tutors including Siân Walters and Jo Walton, connect with fellow art lovers, and celebrate another inspiring year of learning together.
Whether you joined 'Stories of art' or other courses such as 'City by city: Renaissance art north of the Alps' or 'Blinding light: Van Gogh in Provence', we warmly welcome all past participants of courses to come together in celebration.
Held in the elegant surroundings of the Supporters’ House, this holiday event is a wonderful opportunity to meet our courses community in person, share experiences, and toast to the year ahead, surrounded by art, conversation, and creativity.
You’ll also have the chance to learn more about Supporter’s House, upcoming courses, and programming for 2026.
We look forward to celebrating the magic of art and the joy of the holiday season together.
Your hosts
Hosted by Caroline Miller, National Gallery's Courses and Events Programmer. Who invites:
Siân Walters is an art historian and the director of Art History in Focus. She studied at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge and has been a lecturer at the National Gallery for over 20 years. Her specialist areas of research are Italian painting, Spanish art and architecture, Flemish and Dutch painting and the relationship between dance and art. Siân also lectures for The Wallace Collection and The Arts Society and leads specialist art tours abroad. She was a lecturer at Surrey University for many years and has lived and worked in France and Italy.
Jo Walton has lectured for The Arts Society for over 15 years, specialising in the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance, as well as aspects of British 20th-century painting and sculpture. She has also worked extensively with The Art Fund, The Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery and local art groups around the UK and was a volunteer guide at Tate Britain and Tate Modern for over a decade.